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Inkjets uses fine sprays of ink. Lasers use a toner attracted to a heated drum. A thermal printer uses a heated print-head that burns an image onto treated paper. A Google search will provide much more info on thermal printers.

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as its names appear it is use heat to print on a heat-sensitive paper. this kind of printer in used on fax machine

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The word "thermal" means heat. The image is made by heat, not ink.

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